Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Student EXPELLED for forgetting to leave his hunting gun at home

Zero tolerance strikes again, with a vengeance: A Maryland high
school expelled a well-behaved 18-year-old student who accidentally
brought a shotgun onto school property because he left it in his car
after returning from a hunting trip. The student, 18-year-old Patrick Bryan Mitchell, was expelled from
South River High School. He was also arrested by county police and
received a mugshot. He is barred from possessing a gun for a year. He missed his senior lacrosse season, several weeks of school, and
his chances at an athletic scholarship to Pfeiffer College were crushed.
He was forced to drop out of two Advanced Placement courses, and has
attempted to keep up with his studies by enrolling in online classes. Now he has a simple request: to attend graduation and senior prom. He
has filed an appeal with the Board of Education of Anne Arundel County
Public Schools...more